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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting & Dataset: The CPCSSN database contains de-identified patient-level electronic medical record data from 13 primary care research networks across Canada. Population Studied: Using CPCSSN data, we defined a cohort of patients aged 50-105 with diabetes diagnosed before the pre-pandemic period.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Among new patients, 58.9%

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Iowa used CRISPR to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa in induced pluripotent stem cells derived from a patient with the disease.

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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself asking that question after listening to a discussant on the podcast arrive at some unexpected diagnosis, only to have the biopsy or lab test prove them right. “How do they do it?!!” Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get back to my morning clinical reasoning “work out”.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Zarzamora Press Release. The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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